Handkerchief



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HANDKERCHIEF -Dec. 23, 1930.

Filed Jan. 24, 1930 Qwumtoz e m z 0 W Patented Dec; 23, 1930 WALLACE 0. LINE, OF CLEVELAND,,OHIO

HANDKERCHIEF Application filed January 24, 1930. Serial No. 423,147.

It is well known that today well dressed gentlemen quite commonly customarily display a handkerchief in the left outer breast pocket of business suits. It is a matter of some difficulty and nicety to fold the handkerchief so that a corner portion is neatly exposed in a dressy manner. I

A very excellent display of the kerchief may be made if it is folded in a peculiar way so that all four corners are visible at the pocket of the wearer. However, the difficulty in folding the kerchief in the last mentioned manner, is so great that it is not feasible to resort thereto, as few men would undertake to learn the difficult folding method for such purpose. L

The present invention is designed to provide a new form of handkerchief which is so made that angular scallops or corner portions are formed at one edge thereof, substantially in direct imitation of the four corners of the handkerchief if folded to overlie one another. The said scallops or corner members of my new form of handkerchief are so located, and so combined withimitation stitching, or actual stitching, hem-lines, embroidery, or the like, seemingly in continuation of the edges of the corners or scallops that when the main body of the handkerchief is received in the wearers pocket, these special corner portions may be exposed and will appear to the observer as if they were the actual corners of the handkerchief extending fully across the pocket in a neat manner of special interest to persons to whom style and good dressing particularly appeals.

In carrying out my invention, while I utilize an arrangement of corner members at one edge of the handkerchief I do not wish to be entirely restricted to such an exact arrangement though it is the most convenient method of manufacturing articles in accordance with the idea of the invention herein proposed.

Other and various adaptations of the invention may be employed though the preferred arrangement or construction is dis closed herein, and is one that may be conveniently practiced from a manufacturing viewpoint.

In my accompanying drawings Figure 1 illustrates the pocket of a mans coat, or under some conditions, the pocket might be that of a womans jacket, a'handker chief made according to the invention being illustrated as being disposed properly therein for the purposes of the invention.

a Figure 2is a plan view of a-handkerchief showing how one edge is providedwith'the corner portions. V

Figure '3 is a view showing the handkerchief just before the final folds are made that enable itto be placed in the pocket, said folds being located about at the arrow points.

Figures 4, 5 and 6 show respectively the manner of forming the lines imitative of the edge portion of the handkerchief at its corners by way'of printing, hemstitching and embroidery.

Q In carrying out my invention, the manner of making my-handkerchief is very simple. I merely provide at oneedge thereof eight angular members projecting from the cloth or other fabric body'of the article. These eight angular projections form scallops like the corner portions of the handkerchief and would appear as if the handkerchief were folded so that all four corners would be at one edge and thus disposed so that they might be visible when the handkerchief is placed in a pocket.

j'While I provide eight of'these cornerelements or angular members, I could dispense with four of these and use four alone. When eight are employed, however, the simulation of the actual folding of a handkerchief is perhaps increased to a somewhat greater extent. In addition to the formingof the angular members or corner elements which are designated 2 in the drawings, the body of the handkerchief being designated 1, I provide edge ornamentation, stitching, embroidery or the like, for the corner members, and in further simulation of the overlapping appearance of corners of a handkerchief properly folded, I project the ornamentation matter used for the edge portions inwardly from the inner angles between the parts 2 as shown at 3. It is thought that an understandingof the purpose of the manner of ornamenting the edge for portions of the corner elements 2, and the portions of the handkerchief some distance in from the three inner angles between the said corner elements, Without further detailed de- 5 scription, will be quite clear.

It is evident from the foregoing that I have devised a handkerchief of a very simple formation that affords the desired corner elements to be exposed when the handkerchief is put into the pocket and which will afiord a very stylish appearing article of this sort. The ornamentation, stitching, etc., at the edges of the corner elements 2 and extending inwardly in line With three of such edges may be of varied character, but Will generally be colored in conformity With the general coloring of the handkerchief and thus the article will be in good taste. Of course, Were the edges of the handkerchief hemstitched, it

an Would be best to carry out the idea of hemstitching for the ornamentation of the idea, designated at 3 and at 4 in the drawings.

It Will be understood, of course, that if I do not Wish to employ for my invention a full size handkerchief, I could employ just a fabric body formed with corner-like shaped projections, and of sufficient size to be exposed at the entrance to a pocket, and this would be a carrying out of the principle and idea of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. As a new article of manufacture, a

: pocket ornament formed of a single layer of fabric and provided at one edge thereof with a series of corner-like shaped projections having lines extending from the bases of said projections onto the body portion of the fab- 49 ric, each line being substantially in alignment With an edge of a projection to simulate overlapping of the corner portions of a handkerchief When folded.

2. A handkerchief of the class described,

adapted to be folded for inserting into a pocket to simulate the appearance of the four projecting corners of the handkerchief, said handkerchief comprising a rectangular body portion of a single layer of fabric, and

50 having located on one edge thereof equidistant from a line therein dividing the body into symmetrical halves, two series of four corner-like projections adapted to superimpose each other when the handkerchief is folded dividing the body portion into symmetrical halves, the said projections of one series having lines extending from the bases thereof onto the body portion of the fabric, each line being substantially in alignment with an edge of a projection to present the appearance of overlapping four corners of the handkerchief when inserted into the pocket.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

'65 lVALLACE 0. LINE. 

